# Moving and Copying Components

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/moving-and-copying-components/200106>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 8, 2006, 5:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/moving-and-copying-components/200106 "2006-09-08T17:36:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![LoneMuskrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90ced4/32.png) [@LoneMuskrat](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/LoneMuskrat)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 5:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/moving-and-copying-components/200106/1 "2006-09-08T17:36:33Z")

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Hello everyone. This is my first post.

I have custom components that I woud like to “ADD” to other custom components. I know that I could just use createObject() but the problem with that method is that it creates another instance of the component. I need to add a **reference** of a component to a dynamic number of other components to reduce the process expense. Is there anything out there that would allow me to do this?